The National Telepathy
The National Telepathy by Roque Larraquy, published by Charco Press on February 18, 2025, is a 161-page work in English that explores the intersection of humor and satire within a historical context. Set in September 1933, the narrative follows the Peruvian Rubber Company as it delivers nineteen indigenous people to Argentina’s first Ethnographic Theme Park. Central to the story is an artefact containing a sloth that possesses the extraordinary ability to forge erotically charged telepathic connections, leading to a satirical examination of societal fears surrounding women’s bodies and the complexities of power dynamics.
Readers will encounter a raucous critique of civilization’s illusions, particularly through the lens of class and race. The National Telepathy presents a comic grotesque that reveals the hidden desires and manipulative strategies of a social class intent on maintaining its dominance. Larraquy’s imaginative storytelling invites reflection on the absurdities of human behavior and societal structures, making this novel a distinctive addition to the realms of literature and genre fiction, particularly within the themes of magical realism and satire.
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In September 1933, the Peruvian Rubber Company delivers nineteen indigenous people from the Amazon to businessman Amado Dam, intended for Argentina’s first Ethnographic Theme Park. Unexpected among the human cargo is an artefact harbouring a sloth with a fascinating yet terrifying secret: the ability to create erotically explosive telepathic connections between people. What ensues is a raucous satire of men’s fear of women’s bodies, of the illusion of logic in the structures of so-called civilisation, and the way class and race obscure identities when the observer is a man with power.
In The National Telepathy , Roque Larraquy, one of the most original voices in contemporary Argentinian literature, brings us a literary high-wire act, an over-the-top comic grotesque about atrocity. This shocking, bizarre, funny, imaginative novel lays all-too-bare the secret longings and not-so-secret machinations of a social class that will stop at nothing in order to stay on top.
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